Deploying Elixir, Phoenix apps on NodeChef involves running a single command [nc deploy] after you complete the process of creating your application from the dashboard and configuring environment variables...

Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source communication tool written in Meteor that can be run on your own infrastructure. Running and maintaining a high performance meteor app requires great expertise...

The continued growth of the internet, particularly in areas of mobile applications, IoT, and connected devices have resulted in industry-wide move to IPv6. IPv6 is the most recent version of the internet protocol...

MongoDB 3.2 is a giant leap forward that helps organizations standardize on a single, modern database for their new, mission-critical applications. Today, we are excited to offer MongoDB 3.2 so that you can take advantage of all the benefits that MongoDB 3.2 offers...

This week, Xervo, (formerly Modulus) announced that it is winding down its service and it will be fully retired on April 28, 2017. Xervo provided a platform for developers to deploy, host and manage their Node.js, Java and MongoDB applications. The good news is NodeChef is providing Xervo customers...

Today we are excited to launch NodeChef Redis, a new web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Redis in the cloud. Developers increasingly need a variety of datastores for their projects as there is no one size fits all database...

We are excited to announce a REST API frontend for NodeChef Cloud Search. By levaraging the new API, developers no longer have to repeatedly build for each app their own middleware to translate client queries into the Cloud search native API...

Today, we are excited to announce that mongoDB replica sets are now available on NodeChef. By leveraging NodeChef’s mongoDB hosting, developers can focus on product development and not get bogged down by database administration and operations...

NodeChef Parse Server Cloud Code hosting allows you to upload and run custom app code in the NodeChef Cloud. We want to keep building tools to improve your developer experience, just like you experienced in the Parse Cloud...

Push notifications are great. It is one of the most effective ways to increase user engagement and retention. They keep users engaged with your app. They provide real-time interaction. They enable cool social features like chat...

With the expanding eco system of Parse Server modules and the active development of the framework, we are introducing a new cloud code asset with name appconfig.js. This file will allow you to customize the initializaing of your Parse Server...

Throughout the development of NodeChef, we have spent lots of time listening to user feedback, fixing bugs, and adding features that users ask for. It wasn’t much of a surprise that data portability came up time and time again...

One of the most requested feature is support for multiple developers working on Apps as a team. We’re happy to announce that our first iteration of team management and collaboration has now gone live...

After much priceless feedback during the private and public betas, we are really excited to announce the release of NodeChef Cloud Search and Analytics. NodeChef Cloud Search and Analytics is a search and analytics-as-a-service solution that allows developers to implement full-text search and analytics...

Having your site referred to as, for example, example.com and www.example.com could be a problem with search engines as search engines consider them different websites. What this means is that if your website has been linked to from other websites using a mix of the two URLs, you are splitting the potential benefit of valuable link popularity...

Headlines about Parse Shutting down created an instant headache for many mobile app developers who depended on the service. Yet, many were relieved to read that Parse will continue to run for a year and also the news that the Parse team has released the open source Parse Server...

Pointer Permissions is a powerful way to secure your app without writing any new cloud code or client code. Pointer Permissions let you secure all of the objects in a class of your Parse Server app at once, directly from the data browser in the Parse Dashboard...

NodeChef offers the best Meteor hosting at the moment at a price that every developer can afford. Every single other alternative will immediately cost you more in terms of money and your time. NodeChef is not only affordable but also very simple to deploy...

After several weeks in beta, we are happy to announce that background jobs is now generally available on NodeChef for all Parse Server customers. Background jobs has been a heavily requested feature since we started offering hosted Parse Server and MongoDB. The absence of background jobs was holding back many Parse developers from migrating..

First of all, we would like to thank all our beta customers for helping make NodeChef what it is today. Your feedback is the reason the NodeChef platform is so powerful. Your support requests, one-on-one feedback and constructive critiques have helped us greatly. Please keep giving us your feedback...

One of the most requested features since Parse Server was released was the Parse Dashboard. The Parse Engineers have now made available the Parse Dashboard to make it easy to manage apps that have been moved to the Parse Server. Today, we’re excited to make the Dashboard available on NodeChef for our Parse Server users...

As you may already know, Parse has announced that it is winding down its service, and it will be fully retired on January 28,, 2017. This gives Developers plenty of time to move away from the Parse hosted solution. The Parse team has also released Parse Server, an open source Parse API Server which makes it possible to serve the Parse API...

It has been over a month since we announced our public beta. Since then we are excited to say that over 200 Developers are actively using the platform to deploy their Meteor apps. One question that we hear often is along the lines of NodeChef features and how they compare with Galaxy...

Last two weeks, Parse announced that it was winding down its service, and it will be fully retired on January 28, 2017. Parse provided a great mobile backend for developers who don’t want to deal with the complexities of server-side infrastructure...

"HTTPS everywhere" is happening and that is why NodeChef is committed to supporting Let's Encrypt. We are happy to announce that we have added integration with Let's Encrypt that is available to all users. This means no more buying an SSL certificate...

Meteor is an impressive open source full-stack platform for web, mobile, and desktop. It is gaining serious momentum but hosting solutions have been lacking as has been expressed many times in the Meteor forums. NodeChef has been working on a more innovative hosting platform...